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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

Then click on 'Get Slack', follow to your nearest mirror, go to the 9.1-iso directory in 'slackware' and grab 'install' disk 1. Grab 2 if you want Gnome or KDE (or both - I forget which is which) or all four if you want all kinds of stuff - or the source disks, too, if you want. Most people do fine with the first disk or two.

Burn the ISO - set BIOS to boot from CD - insert CD - reboot. Read the intro screen, then do 'fdisk' and then run 'setup' and follow through the installer menus. Reboot. Enjoy.

An ISO-file is a complete image ready to burn on a CD. My CD-burner is on my Windows-only machine, but I believe that most burning software can handle burning an ISO-file. Don't burn it as one single file on the CD. When finished, you should be able to see a lot of files on the CD.

The BIOS contains settings for your hardware. You access it by a special key-press when the system boots up. Usually 'DEL' 'ESC' or 'F10'. The key in question is often stated on that first screen when the system boots. There should be a section called "Boot sequence" or something. There you can set in which order the drives are polled for a media to boot from. A good setting is "A / CD-ROM / C". This means that the computer boots from a floppy, if present, if it isn't then it boots from a CD, if present, otherwise boot from HDD.

Thanks, Martin. You're pretty concise and to the point there, yourself.

I think I was a little off, though. I'd assumed most mirrors would have gotten around to it now but, strictly speaking, a 'mirror' wouldn't have the iso's. And, looking around, most don't. So maybe just substitute http://linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=17 for 'slack mirror'. They only seem to offer two and not all four but, like I say, the first one or two will do.

....... adding to that - a simple partitioning scheme such as a Root and Swap partition is sufficient to start with Slackware whether on its own or alongside other distros - if you've already got a Linux distribution on your drive then during setup you'll be able to choose whether you want to use its Swap space with Slack aswell - just say yes ( you can share Swap space amongst distros ).